Summary: | <app-emulation/libvirt-0.8.8-r1: Server DoS w/read-only connection (CVE-2011-1146) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Alex Legler (RETIRED) <a3li> |
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | cardoe, virtualization |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=71753cb7f7a16ff800381c0b5ee4e99eea92fed3;hp=13c00dde3171b3a38d23cceb3f9151cb6cac3dad | ||
Whiteboard: | B3 [glsa] | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Alex Legler (RETIRED)
2011-03-14 14:10:22 UTC
0.8.8-r1 in tree. (In reply to comment #1) > 0.8.8-r1 in tree. Thank you. Arches, please test and mark stable: =app-emulation/libvirt-0.8.8-r1 Target keywords : "amd64 x86" amd64 ok amd64 done. Thanks Agostino x86 stable. Thanks, folks. GLSA Vote: yes. Yes, too. GLSA request filed. CVE-2011-1146 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1146): libvirt.c in the API in Red Hat libvirt 0.8.8 does not properly restrict operations in a read-only connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) virNodeDeviceDettach, (2) virNodeDeviceReset, (3) virDomainRevertToSnapshot, (4) virDomainSnapshotDelete, (5) virNodeDeviceReAttach, or (6) virConnectDomainXMLToNative call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5086. Affected versions are no longer in tree. This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201202-07 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201202-07.xml by GLSA coordinator Stefan Behte (craig). |